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Nx Witness

A lightweight video platform that does more with less hardware. We deploy Nx Witness where server footprint, bandwidth or remote-site constraints make a heavier VMS the wrong answer.

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Certified Nx Witness Partner

What Nx Witness is

Nx Witness is built by Network Optix, an American company, and it takes a deliberately different approach to most enterprise video platforms.

Where the established VMS products have grown broad and heavy over two decades, Nx Witness is built around speed and a small footprint — it runs well on modest hardware, starts fast, and its web and mobile clients are genuinely usable rather than an afterthought. That makes it a strong fit for distributed estates: many small sites, constrained bandwidth, limited local server capacity, and operators who need to check a camera from a phone without launching a workstation client.

It is not the answer for every deployment. Where an organisation needs deep third-party integration and federated architecture across hundreds of servers, XProtect is usually the better specification — and we’ll say so.

What we do with it

Platform selectionAdvising honestly on whether Nx Witness or a heavier VMS is right for the requirement. The correct answer is driven by site count, integration depth and bandwidth, not by which product is easier to sell.
Design and deploymentServer sizing, storage and retention design, and multi-site architecture across distributed locations.
Remote and constrained sitesConfiguring for locations with limited bandwidth or no local IT presence, where the practical requirement is that the system keeps recording and can be reached without a truck roll.
Health monitoringCamera status, recording continuity and storage tracked continuously through AssetGuard One.
Version governanceControlled upgrades that keep the platform supported and reduce cyber exposure on network-connected video devices.
Lifecycle managementObsolescence tracking, replacement priorities and budget forecasting.

At a glance

AccreditationCertified Nx Witness Partner
VendorNetwork Optix — United States
PlatformNx Witness VMS
Best suited toDistributed sites, constrained hardware, limited bandwidth
Cameras we deploy on itAxis, Dahua, Uniview, Vivotek
Support modelRemote-first — around 80% of issues resolved without a site visit

Choosing between platforms

If you’re specifying video for a new estate, the honest starting question is how many sites, how much bandwidth, and what the video needs to talk to. Those three answers usually decide the platform before anyone looks at a feature list. We’ll give you that assessment before a quote, not after.

Talk to us about your video platform.

Book an initial security review and we’ll assess your current coverage, system health and monitoring arrangement.